2026 – Raveningham Sculpture Trail

The 2026 Sculpture Trail at Raveningham features 60 selected artists and makers across 3 acres of grounds who have created works responding to the theme of RITUAL.

Artists have developed ideas, artwork, sculpture, site specific works, stories, magic and more for the meadows, pond, gardens, and woodland at Raveningham. By letting their imaginations and aspirations soar they have created a sculpture exhibition to inspire and uplift visitors. The Sculpture Trail team is committed to encouraging public interaction with contemporary art in a rural setting as well as creating space and opportunity for artists to show and sell their work to a diverse audience.

People’s choice winner – Announced 6th Sept 2026.

Curator’s choice winner – Announced 6th Sept 2026.

Scroll down to see our 2026 Raveningham Sculpture Trail Artists

Meg Amsden – Protest as Ritual
Masked figures representing the old gods of nature – Stag, Raven, Horse – protest the destruction of the natural world. Where they tread the grass grows again beneath their feet.

www.meg-amsden.co.uk

@megams72

**Pauline Antram – Beyond Reflection** – £1500
Water is a significant element, both as a spiritual symbol and in its everyday use for washing and cleansing. It has long served as a mirror, offering reflection both literally and psychologically. *Beyond Reflection* considers what follows that moment of self-recognition: transformation, renewal, and connection through ritual.
@paulineantram
http://www.paulineantram.com

**Sophie Austin** – AWAKE! a short experimental documentary about a liminal moment in the calendar – midwinter – observed by the inhabitants of a small rural Dorset village in England. A time outside time, magic is everywhere and anything is possible.

**Ball Nick – IGGY –** Knitted Creature. Recycled data cable.

**Ritual.**
As I drift through the cold dark nights with little on the tele this body begins to emerge out of the woven shapes of twisted wires. Keeps ya busy!

**Rachael Barns – Synthetic Spectrum**
I utilise key characteristics of contemporary ritual within my art practice; consistency, symbolism and transformation. For Synthetic Spectrum I consistently collected waste plastic on daily walks in the city streets near my home. My actions symbolically give greater meaning and respect to these discarded materials. By utilising this litter within my work, I alter its status, transforming it into a valued resource. www.rachaelbarns.art

**Rachael Barns – Milkwoods**
Children from Saxlingham Nethergate and Preston CEVC primary schools responded to the Raveningham site with artist Rachael Barns. The children collected waste plastics and worked in the gardens alongside Rachael during their arts week to create a site-specific installation for the trail.

www.rachaelbarns.art

**Richard Baxter –** Creating artworks using recycled horseshoes to create uplifting, pleasing sculptural forms.

**Helen Breach – The Rook**

Out of scale chess pieces, a chess board that moves in the breeze, a strange beady-eyed onlooker, an oversized timer – all part of the chess tournament rituals.

Life is a game of chess, each move is a choice, each decision affects the outcome. Logic, intellect and strategy direct us, the players, as we calculate the possibilities, the lines of movement of our own rituals and destiny.

Sit, play, work out your next moves!

Recycled materials, fabric, furniture, plaster, steel, mirror.

www.helenbreach.com

@helenbreach1

A daily ritual -going for a walk, thoughts riding the breeze, the quiet whistle of the wind, nature illuminating the day. Space for calm reflection and to feel close to our emotional wounds. There is an old Chinese proverb ‘you cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair’.

**Liz Cannell –** **From Rajastan to Raveningham, 4,050 miles;** cotton is grown and harvested in October and turned into fabric for saris. The pieces I have used are from recycled saris and the fillings all recycled materials from U.K.

**Laura Cannell and Andre Bosman – RITUALS OF PROTECTION**, ceramic and gold leaf.

Hidden in plain sight – Are you a Witch or Fairy disguised as human?
For thousands of years hagstones have been strung up around the house, on stable doors or worn as protective talisman. Nothing bad can enter if you have a Hag Stone by your door.

By looking through the hole you can see a persons true identity, be they a good witch or a hobgoblin, the hagstone portal will reveal what you wish to hide. These hagstones are handmade and inspired by holey stones. Available in the pop up gallery.

**Laura Cannell – A SHIP SUNK IN EARTH** – Film, Music & Choreography by Laura Cannell

This is a film of a newly created ritual – A set of dance movements derived from traditional English country dancing mixed with improvised choreographed movements. It was created and filmed here in Raveningham, near where you are standing. I wanted to commemorate a nameless East Anglian Queen who created a ritual for her King in his ship burial at Sutton Hoo. You are listening to a Lyre, an instrument that was buried with the King and would have been heard in these parts of East Anglia around 1400 years ago.

This dance is an offering to a history we were supposed to remember, but somewhere between the centuries it was lost deep in our collective folk memory, we forgot to remember. It is never too late too re-start or to create a new ritual. These movements and memories run deep in our bodies. The physicality of sound and movement gives us the unspoken language that truly connects us. When we strike the strings and dance, we can connect to not just our predocessors, but to our East Anglian ancestors ”. (Laura Cannell March 2025)

This track is from Laura Cannell’s album LYRELYRELYRE.
Thanks to the magical ‘Cloaks’ group who appear in the video: Daisy Black, Stacia Briggs, Sarah Cannell, Laura Cannell, Natalie Chidley, Siofra Connor, Kally Davidson, Charlotte Dickens, Melissa Eaton, Sophie Giller, Loula Yorke & Connie Yorke Brooke & Isla Yorke Brooke, Dana Sonn and Polly & Theda Wright.

Thanks to David Thomas, Dave Brooke and André Bosman for additional filming. And to Liz Cannell for Prop making. Directed and Produced by Laura Cannell. Supported by The Marchus Trust.

**Sarah Cannell – The Ritual of Stitch** – 100 hours of handstitching. Stitch has been my winter ritual for a number of years, it’s cosy stitching by the fire with bright threads and patterned fabrics. In 2024 I started a 100 days of stitch project, this turned into a couple of years of stitching A5 fabric pages celebrating local creatures: hares, foxes, owls, moths and more. I was going to turn the pages into a fabric book but decided to create this hanging for Ritual 2026 to share my love of fabric and handstitching.

**Cole Andrew –** A self-taught sculptor Andy has recently turned his attention to creating anthropomorphic sculptures that blend human traits with elements of nature and the animal world. His work has a quiet sense of humour and a respect for character—each piece suggesting a story, a quirk, or a moment caught in time. The Ritual which is the subject of this piece is the English ritual of “Afternoon Tea.” The piece depicts the aftermath of the Ritual when some uninvited participants show up. Andy invites the viewer to add their own narrative to the events depicted.

**A J Conlin –** Sculptures that explore the transformative effect that humans have had on insect life as well as the ageless primordial nature of invertebrates.

**Dom Cooper – Goddess of Nature**

In modern paganism, rituals often centre on representing a Goddess figure as a focus of devotion and to connect with Nature and ancient traditions.

Limestone on a Douglas Fir plinth
£1200

@domcooperartist

website: domcooper.uk

Kally Davidson – **Alter Altar** — I see the Craft of Art as ritual, deeply connecting me to a state of flow, the nature of myself and community. Born through transition, these hand-spun, freeform crocheted masks bring new life to past threads. Resilience through overwhelm, whether calming, grounding, releasing, healing or evoking humour. Giving a sense of place in the seat of soul and the very fabric of my being.

Dedman Nicci – Chase

My creations derive from a fascination with wire and the forms that can be achieved with wire alone.

I make each piece individually by hand, using steel wire of various guages. I have developed a technique where a single outer layer of wire forms the structure, creating an interplay between the seen outer layer and the intricate negative space within.

I am influenced by the everyday and the simple thing in life. And I love dogs. In all shapes and sizes, doing all their silly things – those rituals they do. Like chasing their tails….

“Chase” made from galvanised steel wire £1400

www.niccidedman.co.uk @niccidedman

**Durban Carl – Story Maps** A month of walks that are etched into stones. These are part of my daily ritual; they occur each and every day and are fundamental to my way of thinking and creating. Maps that although they can guide you, they are more about the journey and the connection with the land, not a graphical annotation of the land, there are no reference points, no landmarks, no grid or contours.

carldurban@btinternet.com
https://www.instagram.com/carldurban/
https://carldurban.wixsite.com/website

**Ellis Sarah –** In a fantasy ritual sea creatures and masked characters get together to mourn the damage already done to the oceans, and to look for some hope for the future. 3D collage, wire tissue paper and found objects.

**John Esling –** SQUARING THE CIRCLE

Locus of a lost rite. Willow poles, coppiced and rooted and nurtured into a living dome.

Entered through a spiral passage, the grounded circle transforms into skyfacing square.

“Dwelling” within, an earlier form, also fashioned from a Willow, but fallen. Respected by the dome; Delphic in intent.

Emily Gardiner – Prayer Arch – An interactive work, where visitors are invited to write prayers on luggage tags and attach them to the arch as they pass through. A symbolic act of prayers being answered. Inspired by my personal faith journey coming to Catholicism, from Protestantism and the prayer rituals I have been cultivating through a blend of little relational prayers throughout the day. |Learning and praying using structured prayers like the rosary.
.www.emilygardinerart.com

@emily_gardiner101 instagram

**Nicola Gibson –** I am interested in the attraction we have to apertures, windows and opening in buildings which allow us to look from the inside out and from the outside in. Gothic shaped window frames contain images based on local flora and fauna with typography relating to the local area.

**Celia Halifax – After Arachne**

In Greek mythology, Arachne was transformed into a spider, destined to weave forever after daring to challenge Athena. This sculpture reimagines her web as a ritual rather than a punishment. Built slowly by hand from silver chain, it reflects the repetitive acts through which stories, skills and traditions endure.

Celia Halifax is a jewellery and textile artist whose practice centres on transforming forgotten materials into contemporary pieces. Working primarily with vintage beads and reclaimed elements, she is interested in the stories objects carry and how they can be given a new life through making.

A unique selection of Celia’s handcrafted jewellery, made using vintage beads, will be available in the gallery shop.

Fiona Hammond – Embrace, £3,000 – Explores the profound experience of love and connection, expressing the way two individuals can come together while retaining their own identity, freedom and strength. Created in response to the theme of Ritual, the sculpture reflects the quiet, repeated acts of care, trust and devotion that sustain relationships over time. These everyday rituals—often unnoticed—form the foundation of our deepest bonds.

The flowing, intertwined forms suggest a harmonious blending of souls, not as a loss of self but as a dynamic balance between unity and individuality. The work celebrates love as an ongoing practice: a continual movement towards one another, renewed through shared experiences and gestures of affection.

Situated within the landscape, Embraceenters into dialogue with the natural world. Surrounded by the natural world and changing light, the sculpture becomes part of a larger cycle of growth, renewal and transformation. As the silver surface catches sunlight and moonlight, it appears almost weightless, creating an impression of suspension between earth and sky. In this way, Embrace invites viewers to reflect on the rituals that connect us—to each other, to nature and to the enduring rhythms of life.

Embrace was designed by Fiona Hammond and realised in collaboration with the skilled metal worker, George Hammond

Instagram: hammondhalldesigns

**Buffy Hardy –** I have been exploring the theme of ritual in terms of people coming together, gathering around a fire for safety and warmth , for food and storytelling and the passing on of stories of our ancestors, histories and knowledge. In the search for meaning and control through collective communal acts and the tracks that leaves behind, as footprints in the earth.

**Andy Jarrett** – Mainly Working in steel, I love the creativity of producing sculptures for outdoor spaces that capture a wide range of natures raw beauty, all of which never fail to excite and fascinate me.

**Helen Jones** – Street Shrine. Shrine and ritual based in the female reverence of nature using reclaimed items and materials such as soft drinks cans and found objects that have patterned surfaces and the technique of assemblage and mosaic.
Price £250 for mosaic only

**Jean Kiekopf – ‘Calm’ in ‘Connection’ –** ‘Connection’ is an exploration of the rituals of meditation and yoga. The poses on the single leaves represent the flow of active yoga poses. They are positioned around the central larger meditating figure, named ‘Calm’. Their positioning is like the 12 numbers of a clock signifying the quality of timeliness within our rituals. 3 figures on the leaves represent the cycle of birth – hoping for a child, pregnancy and newborn baby feeding (3, 6 and 9 O’clock) The central large figure ‘Calm’ appears to be levitating in the breeze beneath the leafy canopy of the trees – she is inviting Calm and peace into her life.
Each piece is for sale: 12 leaves with figures – £60 each. 90cm steel wire, cassini plaster, fibreglass mat and copper metallic coating.

‘Calm’ Meditating yoga figure £925
Steel framework, cassini plaster, reinforced fibreglass mat, copper metallic coating.

Email: jkiekopf@yahoo.co.uk
Website: https://jksculptures.co.uk
Instagram: @jeankiekopf.sculptor

**Louise Severyn Kosinska** – Budka. Hut,shed, glasshouse, greenhouse, icehouse, gingerbread, wood, straw, mud . A place for creativity, nurturing, contemplation, worship but also contains warnings and cautionary tales.
The hut in the forest has a symbiotic relationship – the wilderness of the unconscious and the unknown with a small careful clearing of consciousness carved out . It’s not always possible to enter but we can look in to restore and read the map of the soul in the mirror.

Louise is a multi media artist based in London .
Website: https://www.louisekosinska.comInstagram :@severynkosinska

**Cindy Lee-Wright –** More enlightened cultures see the Earth as a sacred place and relationships as sacred bonds, and so the ritual of communal meals have a sacred element to them. To express this, to bring ritual to Raveningham, I have made an eating space from locally sourced and foraged timber with willow Angel to bless the moment.

**Rachael Long – Melchiore** – recycled and forged steel, £2550

Inspired by visits to medieval churches around East Anglia but especially the carved wooden misericords in Norwich Cathedral. This winged beast with the face of an owl and the body of lion has its ancestry in manticores and mythical beasts.

Escaping Man £15,600
Lion Lady Alone £2,600
Instinct and Spirit £4,550
My creative power erupts £3,900
Lion Lady carrying Christa 1 £6,500
Lion Lady carrying Christa 2 £2,600
Lion Lady carrying Christa 3 £4,225
Arriving Man £16,120

Price of whole installation (excluding plinths) £37,397

The Singer (small bronze for indoors gallery) £4,566

**Gabrielle Maughan with Terry Wright**Textiles are the artworks of every day. You can wear them, sit on them, sleep under them, hang them around the house, make bags out of them. They are also used in rituals, for example funeral attire. Having said that, we like to make you look at them differently.

**Maxfield Helen** – A new series of lino prints that explore the ritual, symbolism and folklore we have created around birds. Helen is interested in exploring how birds have formed such a central part of our cultural traditions and beliefs.
In this series of lino prints, Helen has explored the way humans have attached symbolism to different species of birds. Humans use their observations of birds and their behaviour to interpret their own experiences. Often these beliefs have been passed down through the generations and particular species have come to represent human characteristics. The owl for wisdom, the raven for death and foreboding and swans for love and fidelity.
Many birds feature in superstitions… think of the magpie and the rituals of ‘Good Morning Mr Magpie, and how’s your wife?’ Seeing a solitary magpie is considered bad luck and as the children’s nursery rhyme goes, ’One for sorrow, Two for Joy…’ Birds are also represented as such through the arts thus perpetuating the association we have attached to them.

Raveningham MICRO KINO – Our magical tiny outdoor cinema space featuring animations created specifically for this year’s Sculpture Trail. Animators have responded to the themes of Ritual. Curated by the fabulous Professor Suzie Hanna Works featured in this year’s reel have been created by animators from UK, Germany, USA.

**Montali Nik – Autumn Rite** uses steel and copper to embody ritual transformation. Corroding Steel signifies death and dissolution, whilst Copper’s evolving patina evokes renewal. Through weatheringthe work becomes a ritual object where decay gives way to new life.

**Niblett Sam –** **Gazing out**
The wood snake builds its mud nest. To birth the fire horse. A clutch of eggs is laid and she settled in to shed and burn her skin in the embers of the solstice.

**Nutbeem Jenny –** A Ritual Robe – Designed for seasonal celebrations to mark the yearly cycle, it is to be worn for rituals of sowing, growing and harvesting, making spells and enchantments and gathering pearls of nature. Fashioned from natural materials and coloured with plant and mineral dyes and pigments.

@jennynutbeemtextiles

**Oaktree and Acorn – The Ritual of Fortune Telling and Luck**

www.thisonelasttime.com
@oaktree.acorn

**Olsen Cindy** – A circular mandala, with mother nature, at its heart, has been created from ceramic sculptures and found objects. Through the echoing of patterns and forms in the natural world, there is an acknowledgement to the interconnectedness between all living things. Its creation is an earth-based ritual, honoring the rhythms and cycles of life.

Eve Pandolfi – The Divine Mystery of the Mundane

I have found it is possible to make the monotony of the everyday task that must be done, deeply and satisfyingly meaningful. But I must warn you, it is a lofty and slightly dizzying path.

A mindful hanging out of the laundry. The deeply felt morality behind a jauntily placed teacup on a draining board.

It can take years to achieve true Flow State to attain Muddling with Intent, when the remote will be on a 60 wash, and a week’s worth of pants on the corner of the coffee table.

**Lola Pauling – Folklore, Face To Face.** Inspired by folklore and the stories I had been told as a child growing up in Norfolk that have now stayed with me into my adult life. These creatures were inspired by midsummer nights dream where Nick Bottom’s head gets turned into a donkey by the mischievous fairy Puck while walking in the woods.

**Pine Jemima –** Hand made jewellery created in gold, silver, brass and bronze. Jemima’s fabulous work will feature in the pop up gallery.

**Joanna Reynolds –** Pomegranates are rich in mythology and ritual. In Greek culture, where they symbolize life, rebirth, and fertility they are famously associated with the myth of Persephone and Hades.
In middle eastern traditions they represent fertility and abundance, beauty and complexity and conjure up images of the Garden of Eden.

**Olivia Rodgers –** Drawing on botanical forms, repetitive gestures, and contemporary marking technologies, the work asks how humans leave traces — not to claim, but to remember.
The installation exists as a hybrid ritual space, where ancient impulses (marking, gathering, returning) meet contemporary tools (laser cutting, projection mapping). It proposes ritual as something continuously rewritten — layered, erased, and re-inscribed across generations.

Tracy Satchwill – The Waiting –
Seven hybrid figures gather in a loose circle, watching and holding presence. Adorned, earth-bound and slightly uncanny, they form a quiet vigil, waiting for something that has not yet arrived.

tracysatchwill.com
@tracysatchwillstudio

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